As a matter of fact, they DO, at least in these posts on celebrity quotes, a continuing series here in The Underworld. We're still burning our way through the alphabet, now ending up in the Rs, so it won't be long until we have exhausted this particular resource. In the meantime...
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| "One of my favorite actors is in that [Yellow Sky,1948] - Greg Peck. I say that sarcastically. We made a good picture with him, despite him." - director WILLIAM WELLMAN on GREGORY PECK |
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| "I didn't care for [Sam] Peckinpah at all. He was one of those little guys who tries to bully big guys and he almost got his ass whipped for trying to do it to me. Every time I was going to throttle Peckinpah, [Steve] McQueen would come over and calm me down like a brother would." - JOE DON BAKER on SAM PECKINPAH (his director on Junior Bonner, 1972) |
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| "He's arrogant-the sort of man who expects women to fall at his feet at the slightest command; who throws his weight around. He gives the impression that he's the star, what he says goes and that nobody else is very important." - JOAN COLLINS on GEORGE PEPPARD (costars in The Executioner, 1970) |
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| "It was always Mary [Pickford] herself that shone through. Her personality was the thing that made her movies memorable and the pictures that showed her personality were the best." - LILLIAN GISH on MARY PICKFORD |
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| "Say anything you like, but don't say I love to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch." - MABEL NORMAND on MARY PICKFORD |
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| "With Roman [Polanski], it was the most difficult working experience I've ever had. My nerves were very much on end at the time, and it was a tough time for him, too. Maybe I should have talked to Jack [Nicholson] about it because he wasn't under pressure and was wonderful. But I don't think what Roman said was well-founded at all. Because it always takes two to tango, and he was insufferable. From what we all know now about his life, he's obviously got trouble with women. So it was a clash." - FAYE DUNAWAY on ROMAN POLANSKI (her director for Chinatown, 1974.) |
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| "He was the best looking thing I've ever seen in my life. Kissing him was like dying and going to heaven." ALICE FAYE on TYRONE POWER (costars of In Old Chicago, 1937, Alexander's Ragtime Band, 1938, and Rose of Washington Square, 1939) |
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| "Ty Power was the handsomest man I ever saw! He was very popular. Tragically, he died... in his 40s. Beauty is a great curse. It distorts lives, making the wrong things important. Do you know what it means to be that adored? These people may have luxurious lives, but somewhere along the line it becomes very difficult to live with. It was that way with Ty." ANNE BAXTER on TYRONE POWER (costars of The Razor's Edge, 1946) |
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| "I was warned about him--but could anybody really be that bad? Yeah, they could. Elaine May wrote a great screenplay. He took a piece of beauty and screwed it up. It was an incredible part...and he destroyed it. I have been the victim of some killers in my time. He's one of the biggest. He's a horrible man. Phew! But who ever hears of him anymore? Is he still alive?" - DYAN CANNON on OTTO PREMINGER (her director on Such Good Friends, 1971) |
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| "He never contributed a damn thing to music... He was successful--hard to account for. Oh, he sings well enough, I suppose." - BING CROSBY on ELVIS PRESLEY |
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| "He was a very sexual man, but I truly believe in the beginning it wasn't meant to be sexual, it just was because that was the way he felt when he played. I think later it became more of a performance, but at the beginning he just wanted to play that guitar and to feel it. It was natural." - BARBARA EDEN on ELVIS PRESLEY (costars of Flaming Star, 1960) |
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| "I personally like big acting like that of Anthony Quinn. He is the quintessence, if you'll pardon the pun, of the actor who is able to control big emotion for the screen. A lot of lightweight performances on the screen don't work for me because I can't see anything behind them. With Quinn, it's difficult not to see everything behind it." - STANLEY BAKER on ANTHONY QUINN (costars of The Guns of Navarone, 1961) |
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| "George Raft and Gary Cooper once played a scene in front of a cigar store and it looked like a wooden Indian was overacting." - GEORGE BURNS on GEORGE RAFT and GARY COOPER (costars of If I Had a Million, 1932, and Souls at Sea, 1937, but never a western) |
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| "I can't stand around like [Robert] Redford. I'm not that narcissistic. Not that photogenic, either." - WILLIAM DEVANE on ROBERT REDFORD (who never worked together) |
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| "It must mean he's as dull as his first wife, Jane Wyman, said he was." - BETTE DAVIS on the "stainless reputation" of RONALD REAGAN |
